mathattack

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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Bravo!!! The one thing you may find is that the old workaholism is hard to shake, but at least you own the calendar.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I find it very hard for founders (who approve the salary of every hire) to not know what their people are worth. Maybe they can't afford to pay it, but that's not a knowledge issue.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Perhaps it would have helped to have a lawyer from work call them. Corruption hates the light of day. It's also a bad indictment of the system that the 90% of cops that are good don't stop the 10% that are bad. Could it be that
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   Tactical Laser-Guided Pizza Cutter(thinkgeek.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Seems very high to me too but I don't own a car and I have a non-radio alarm. I wonder if they count things like office visits or internet streamed radio. I'd say we are outliers but many don't own cars.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   This is an outrageous abuse of power by the cops, and shows the damage that one bad cop can do. Imagine if you didn't have any backing or support. This also suggests the importance of bit ever talking back to police. I know of situat
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   There are degrees in how harsh and public you should shame. If as a manager, I allow people to frequently complain about their peers with the other people absent, it sets up a terrible precedent. As manager I would become the bottleneck as
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I agree with your point. Buttons facilitate sharing at the expense of poorer design. You can mitigate this somewhat by nudging people towards sharing it where you want them to put it.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I was thinking similar. If police will crap on someone like this when they misperceive that they're wealthy and can afford a lawyer (wannabe billionaire) imagine what they do to people who can't defend themselves. It's a ve
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    My 2 cents... When asked for a discount pre-trial, I am vague suggesting "We'll find a way to make it work for you. We can offer discounts for longer term contracts. Once you do the trial, we can narrow down the scope and figur
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I agree completely. If open source doesn't require as much up front investment, then you don't need as much sales or market cap to justify good returns for your investors. That aside, I do like the point of the original article.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It doesn't like a moral argument that's being made, rather a probability. Yes someone can be motivated by libertarian values and enable crime. But what's the likelihood that it's a crook looking for a way to steal? I d
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I’ve included transaction logs at the bottom of this message. Review the vendor’s dishonest actions and use whatever means you deem necessary to bring this person to justice. More details will emerge as we continue to investigate. This se
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Are there really that many unpaid interns in the software industry? I can see if someone wants to get into media or an ad agency, but those seem like the exception. I honestly can't think of a single CS major who went unpaid. I can
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Not enough time for a pivot. Does this mean folks aren't starting with enough cash to get through the initial hurdles?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I like it. I wish there was a reference to Orkut worked in there. That social network thrived for a long time purely because a couple Brazilian open source celebs latched on to it.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    More the latter, though the former holds true too. I'd rather people say things to my face before going behind my back. Organizations where there is more private than public communications tend to be very disfunctional.
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    Data Science 101: Data Analysis MOOC Post-Mortem(inside-bigdata.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Is this really just "How to A/B test your way into getting clickthroughs"?
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    Live and Learn: How Big Data and Machine Learning Power the Internet(plus.google.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Why the New York Times hired a biologist as it's chief data scientist(fastcompany.com)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm with you - I just don't think I wrote clearly enough above. If a company blindly cuts every division the same amount, it's dumb. 20% across the board cuts penalize the productive too much, and don't cut the unproduc
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Title can be misleading. He went from a low growth division with existing processes to a high growth firm he can help build. It's kind of like saying a director of internal IT with 50 direct reports is taking a demotion to be the firs
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I get the need to improve productivity but blind mandates suggest that something else is wrong. At yet another employer they did a very well thought out layoff of approx 15% of the workforce. It was very well thought out and preceded by 6
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I hadn't even thought of that unintended consequence. A firm I used to work for did a hiring freeze. The well run parts (in a part of the world that is easy to fire people) of the organization obliged. The poorly run parts (in a plac
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Sure - why not? It is generally best to shed as much light as possible on gossip.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    True. Though I find corporate hiring freezes to be a reaction to organizational disfunction. If you starve your growing areas because you haven't found a way to keep your stagnant divisions from increasing headcount, then you have big
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    On point one - perhaps my expectations are lower. I think a CS degree signals a level of rigor that is absent in other degrees, but I don't pretend that the practicality is so high that people can be instantly useful. I assume that i
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think we're saying the same thing. Universities aren't teaching security, so folks learn it elsewhere. Most people hiring new grads know this.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think you over-estimate the impact of universities. Many (perhaps most?) CS professors think of themselves as Applied Mathematicians. It's unrealistic to expect your linear algebra teacher to worry about style. Negligence is the fi